font_foundry: Chank

Mister Hand

Mister Hand font

Mister Hand was created in 1998 from a found object. Chank scanned it in, cleaned it up a little and voila! It’s a retro version of the American Sign Language finger spelling alphabet. Uppercase...

Nicotine

Nicotine font

Need to cram a zillion words on to a single page? Nicotine is your vice. Cram it. Nicotine Jazz is a bit more musical as it trades uppercase and lowercase letters for an interesting...

Gobbler

Gobbler font

Gobble gobble gobble! The Gobbler font was drawn with a leaky pen on a napkin at the Modern Cafe in Northeast Minneapolis while the designer, Mister Chank Diesel, was waiting for some pot roast....

Corndog

Corndog font

Corndog is a super chunky handwriting font with teeth. While it kinda looks ike it was drawn with a brick, the original art for this font was actually drawn very very tiny with an...

Couchlover

Couchlover font

How about a light-hearted romp through the traditional roman alphabet? Here’s a fun, childlike, cartoon font with a spring lilt and a bumblebee’s bounce. Couchlover is available in Regular and Light weights to add...

Coffeedance

Coffeedance font

Shortly after the creation of Chauncy Deluxxe, Chank realized that he needed a condensed font to go with the regular version of his handwriting. The solution was Coffeedance, a fun, light, dancing, dandy handmade...

Cocaine

Cocaine font

Chank worked with Josh Eshbach, an intern from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, to create Cocaine as the Chank Font of the Month for November 2000. Inspired by Speedball type designs of the...

Billsville

Billsville font

Billsville is a fun font that mixes the casual sassy flair of an old Flintstone cartoon with the upright legible nature of a classic serif font to create something entirely new. Although based primarily...